Re: way to change default Debian login screen

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Andreas Janssen wrote:

> Hello
>
> miso simovic (<miso_sim@yahoo.co.uk>) wrote:
>
>  
>
> > hi, i'm wondering if there is a way to change the
> > default Debian X-window login screen. i tried to change it via
> > Control Panel - System Administration - Login
> > Manager, but i was not succesful. Whatever changes i
> > make, the login screen still looks the same. Maybe the
> > setting don't get saved because i got this error when
> > starting Login Manager - "Unable to create folder
> > /usr/share/apps/kdm/faces". how can i fix this error?
> > or there is another way how to change the login
> > screen?
> >    
>
> Which login manager do you use? kdm, xdm, gdm, wdm? Sounds like kdm to
> me. The error message could mean that either
>
> - /usr is mounted read-only or
>
> - you don't have permissions. If you use KDE 2.2, you have to start
> kcontrol as root (kdesu kcontrol). If you use KDE 3, open kcontrol, and
> switch to system administration mode.
>
> best regards
>        Andreas Janssen
>
>  
Or at a command line, become root (I recommend "sudo") and then run 
"dpkg-reconfigure xdm" (or kdm, wdm, gdm); this should open a window 
asking which login manager (of those you have installed) you want to use 
by default. Or you can install one of the login managers (ie, "apt-get 
install kdm") and it'll run this question as part of the install.

--
Kent